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NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB

VRAM
8 GB
ENTRY-LEVEL
BANDWIDTH
1490
GB/S
MODELS Q4
220/449
49%
7B Q4 SPEED
~170
BLAZING
▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q449% OF ALL
▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B
~397
TOK/S
7B
~170
TOK/S
14B
7.9GB NEEDED
32B
18.0GB NEEDED
70B
39.4GB NEEDED
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
8 GB
BANDWIDTH
1490 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
50.5 TFLOPS
TDP
250W
MEMORY
HBM2e
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
CUDA CORES
4,480
TENSOR CORES
280
PCIE
Gen 1 x4
220
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
220
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
220
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 220
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 90M0.09B
FALCON·256K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
13244
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
8830
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.14B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
8514
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.14B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
8514
TOK/S · 7% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 256M0.256B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
4656
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Gemma 3 270M0.27B
GEMMA·32K CTX· CHAT
4415
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed M v2.00.305B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
3908
TOK/S · 8% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
3558
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
3558
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
3558
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
LFM2 350M0.35B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
3406
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
3311
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.38B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
3137
TOK/S · 9% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
2384
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
SmolVLM 500M0.5B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT· VISION
2384
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.52B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
2292
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
2099
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L v2.00.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
2099
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Qwen3-Embedding 0.6B0.6B
EMBEDDING·32K CTX· EMBEDDING· MULTILINGUAL
1987
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1R Tiny 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1987
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Falcon Perception 0.6B0.6B
FALCON·4K CTX· VISION
1987
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.62B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1923
TOK/S · 11% VRAM
S
LFM2 700M0.74B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE
1611
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.75B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1589
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.81B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
1472
TOK/S · 12% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.87B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
1370
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
InternVL3 1B0.94B
OTHER·32K CTX· CHAT· VISION
1268
TOK/S · 13% VRAM
S
MiniCPM5 1B1.08B
MINICPM·128K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· MULTILINGUAL
1104
TOK/S · 14% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
1084
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
993
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
993
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
LFM2 1.2B1.2B
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
993
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
Zamba2 1.2B1.2B
OTHER·4K CTX· CHAT
993
TOK/S · 15% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
917
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
917
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
MiniCPM-V 4.61.3B
OTHER·256K CTX· CHAT· VISION
917
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.35B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
883
TOK/S · 16% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
839
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.42B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
839
TOK/S · 17% VRAM
S
LFM2 8B A1B8.3BMoE
LFM·125K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· MULTILINGUAL
795
TOK/S · 70% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB8 GB VRAM.

CMP 170HX 8 GB SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
8 GB HBM2e
BANDWIDTH
1490 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
50.5 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
12.6 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
4,480
TENSOR CORES
280
TDP
250 W
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
▸ AI CAPABILITY
220/ 449 models @ Q4

With 8 GB VRAM and 1490 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 10.7B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~170 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR CMP 170HX 8 GB
220 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
SOLAR-10.7B10.7B7.0 GB11128.2
Falcon3-10B10.3B6.8 GB11638.2
GLM-4.1V 9B Thinking10.29B6.8 GB116
Bamba 9B v29.78B6.5 GB12226.1
Qwen 3.5 9B9.65B6.4 GB12450.6
RecurrentGemma 9B9.63B6.4 GB12435.0
glm-4-9b9.4B6.2 GB12720.5
MiniCPM-o 4.59.37B6.2 GB127
gemma-2-9b9.2B6.1 GB13030.2
Yi 1.5 9B9B6.0 GB13230.3
Yi Coder 9B9B6.0 GB13235.8
Ministral 3 8B8.92B5.9 GB13425.7
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning8.92B5.9 GB134
NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v28.9B5.9 GB13444.2
InternLM3 8B Instruct8.8B5.9 GB13538.7
Qwen3-VL 8B Instruct8.77B5.8 GB13626.4
MiniCPM-V 4.58.7B5.8 GB13726.1
MiniCPM-o 2.68.67B5.8 GB13740.3
Gemma 1 7B8.54B5.7 GB14024.7
CodeGemma 7B8.54B5.7 GB14040.2